Tamsen and Dan Read the Paper

Tamsen Granger and Dan Abuhoff

A weekly conversation about the arts, sports, life, and literature, inspired by what we read in the Sunday Paper.

  • 45 minutes 32 seconds
    Episode 423: Zoubi!

    Tamsen's new favorite basketball player/story.  Also Hatshepsut: Tamsen's favorite female pharaoh.  Plus Max Scherzer: Tamsen's new favorite MLB rehab story.  And Bojangle's: Tamsen's favorite fast food biscuit sandwich.  Not to mention Raphael...well, you get the picture...

    Credits:

    Talent:  Tamsen Granger and Dan Abuhoff

    Engineer: Elizabeth Easton Aziz

    Art:  Zeke Abuhoff

    29 March 2026, 3:00 pm
  • 44 minutes 41 seconds
    Episode 422: Wake Up Sleepy Owl

    The many contributions of Bell Labs.  Coders wrangle their AI Agents.  Artists, their estates, and their estranged families.  Hyrox.  Angelika Saleh.  Alan Trustman. An Owl wakes up in a Gift Shop...

    Credits:

    Talent:  Tamsen Granger and Dan Abuhoff

    Engineer: Elizabeth Easton Aziz

    Art:  Zeke Abuhoff

    19 March 2026, 3:30 pm
  • 48 minutes 20 seconds
    Episode 421: Stained Glass And Friendly Taverns

    Beautiful window to see at the Met!  Hanging out at the local tavern.  Putin' on the Shvitz!  Updating the American Girl Doll. Bloomies is Back.  How about Jordan Stolz on a bike? Say good bye to Mr. Clean.

    Credits:

    Talent:  Tamsen Granger and Dan Abuhoff

    Engineer: Elizabeth Easton Aziz

    Art:  Zeke Abuhoff

    10 March 2026, 2:07 pm
  • 45 minutes 26 seconds
    Episode 420: Olympic Fever

    Watching the Winter Olympics.  The end of Mass Market Paperbacks.  House Burping.  Rough Times for Female Tortoises in Macedonia.  Jo Ann Bass and Joe's Stone Crab.  Freedom House Ambulance Service. Football by Chuck Klosterman.

    Credits:

    Talent:  Tamsen Granger and Dan Abuhoff

    Engineer: Elizabeth Easton Aziz

    Art:  Zeke Abuhoff

    26 February 2026, 7:18 pm
  • 54 minutes 19 seconds
    Episode 419: One Meal After Another

    Hunkered down but getting out anyway.  High Spirits in NYC.  The Testament of Ann Lee at the movie theater.  One Battle After Another on the small screen.  More Inspiration from Kpop Demon Hunters.  Mourning the demise of the Department Store.  Metrocard Artists losing their supply.  Ellen Hughes: more than your average hockey mom.  New Restaurant models - loving The Dutchess (Ojai!). Amor Towles - stepping into the Jazz Age via Cole Porter and Ella (Fitzgerald).

    Credits:

    Talent:  Tamsen Granger and Dan Abuhoff

    Engineer: Elizabeth Easton Aziz

    Art:  Zeke Abuhoff

    18 February 2026, 6:49 pm
  • 44 minutes 56 seconds
    Episode 418: A Very Snowy Day

    We're having a REAL WINTER.  Hunkered down watching movies and reading the newspaper.  Lots to think about:  Kpop Demon Hunters bringing Korean culture to the world.  A World in the Making: The Shakers (exhibition) and The Testament of Ann Lee (movie).  A big book about Bennett Cerf by Gayle Feldman.  Wilbur Wood.  John Brody.  How Green Was My Valley. Songs by Sondheim.

    Credits:

    Talent:  Tamsen Granger and Dan Abuhoff

    Engineer: Elizabeth Easton Aziz

    Art:  Zeke Abuhoff

    4 February 2026, 9:50 pm
  • 42 minutes 30 seconds
    Episode 417: Beans and More

    Rancho Gordo.  Yum.  Fun in NYC.  The Plague. Discovering Ted Chapin's Everything Was Possible. Making Oboes.  The New Princeton University Art Museum.  Give Well.  

    Credits:

    Talent:  Tamsen Granger and Dan Abuhoff

    Engineer: Elizabeth Easton Aziz

    Art:  Zeke Abuhoff

    28 January 2026, 3:24 pm
  • 47 minutes 1 second
    Episode 416: Welcome 2026!

    Summing up the Holidays. Merchants of Joy, Xmas tree sellers documentary.  Marty Supreme. World's Largest Apron Museum.  Phyllis Lee Levin. Redwing Boots.  Remembering Annette, the last of the Dionne Quintuplets.

    Credits:

    Talent:  Tamsen Granger and Dan Abuhoff

    Engineer: Elizabeth Easton Aziz

    Art:  Zeke Abuhoff

    7 January 2026, 2:26 pm
  • 45 minutes 7 seconds
    Episode 415: Where are the Snails?

    Another shocking French Heist.  Remembering Mel Leipzig. Colds at night.  Mary Ann Patten: first female captain of a merchant clipper ship.  Pizza business ups and downs.  Stewart Brand and The Maintenance of Everything.  The Family Bond of the NY Giants.  Self Driving Cars.

    Credits:

    Talent:  Tamsen Granger and Dan Abuhoff

    Engineer: Elizabeth Easton Aziz

    Art:  Zeke Abuhoff

    14 December 2025, 8:57 pm
  • 48 minutes 3 seconds
    Episode 414: Thanksgiving 2025

    Looking back over a tasty time.  Musing on Broadway favorites, Tom Stoppard, Mary Poppins.  Pride and Pleasure by Amanda Vaille (Schuyler sisters). Bob Trumpy.  David Lerner (Tekserve).  Terry Martin Hekker (Disregard First Book).  Repair Cafés.

    Credits:

    Talent:  Tamsen Granger and Dan Abuhoff

    Engineer: Elizabeth Easton Aziz

    Art:  Zeke Abuhoff

    5 December 2025, 3:14 pm
  • 41 minutes 12 seconds
    Episode 413: Once in a Blue Moon

    Looking at Lorenz Hart through Ethan Hawke and Richard Linklater.  The Dodgers do it again.  A Stuff Lending Library.  The Louvre Heist.  Paying your legal bills with your museum collection.  Playbill edges toward URL.  Wasp Nest decor.  Shelly Fireman.

    Credits:

    Talent:  Tamsen Granger and Dan Abuhoff

    Engineer: Elizabeth Easton Aziz

    Art:  Zeke Abuhoff

    9 November 2025, 10:34 am
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